The Sacred Ding Chapter 227: Westbound

On the last day before the 75th year of Emperor Yitian, a huge team of five or six hundred people slowly made their way out of Wengcheng in Tieliuguan.

Outside the Wengcheng, there is a section of paved avenue. At this time, there is a thick layer of snow, and the ruts are rolling over, and there is rustling, as if rolling on the human heart.

Tieliuguan is the last pass out of Hexi and the last pass out of Yanzhou. However, the carriages of horses and horses drove out of Wengcheng in Tieliuguan, even if they stepped into a foreign land.

Dong Ning opened the window of the car, the wind and snow poured in from the window, blowing her face like a cut, blowing her eyes and tears, turning back to see the black Guancheng built in a narrow valley, it was so cold and so cold. The ruthlessness-looking east, the rolling mountains are covered under the snow, dozens of fortresses are divided according to the dangerous terrain, and the shadows are like a giant lock, which completely locks the Jinzhou brutal enemy to the west of Tie Liuling.

And the thousands of soldiers standing like a sculpture on the city head cast countless eyes here, but in the intricate eyes, they were mixed with pity, anger, unwillingness, or dissatisfaction. There was no trace of sympathy for her.

"The princess, Dong Duhu's horse team has returned to Guancheng."

Yun Qiwei Ranhu, who escorted Dong Ningxi to marry, rode over and talked to Dong Ning through the car window.

Dong Ning is not very familiar with the clan uncle of the General Protector of Tieliu's camp, so he only had the opportunity to meet him when he was young or when he was growing up and he met his grandfather, but he didn't remember what he said before. There are many things to say farewell without passing through Tieliuguan, except that he is one of the few Dao Dan powers of the Dong clan, and they all say that his position in the Dong clan and Hexi is only under his father Qin Muhou.

Is power really that important to men?

"Are we on the road now?" Ran Hu asked Dong Ning in a daze.

"Oh! Let's go then." Dong Ning replied, put down the curtain, and sat back in the warm carriage covered with brocade couches steaming from the incense burner.

Listening to Dong Ningkong’s falling voice, Ran Hu felt uncomfortable, but the wind and snow were so heavy, if the chariots continued to delay before Tie Liuguan, they would not be able to reach 200 before night The remnants of Yuguan inside and outside camped overnight.

In that case, such a big wind and snow cart and horse team camped directly in the wild. People can sleep in a tent, but the horses are afraid of frostbite.

The journey to the west has been for thousands of miles, and we will be married in the West Qiang country by the Chaimu Lake in two months. Time is still tight.

Dong Ning’s marriage to the Young Master of the Xiqiang Kingdom can be arranged after the spring of the next year, when the snow melts and the spring flowers bloom, and it only takes a month for more than a thousand miles to reach Xiqiang, but Hexi Anxious to form an alliance with the West Qiang State and relieve the threat from the west, even half a year can’t wait, but in the coldest season of the year, in the freezing and freezing seasons of thousands of miles, especially in The day before the New Year's Eve, he left his homeland and went west, Ran Hu felt chilling.

It's just that as a son of the Ran clan, he is only Yun Qiwei in the Hexi Wuwei Army. There is no room for him to intervene in this matter.

"After Chen Hai handed over Juquanling out, he left the book and resigned. It has been more than a month since he left Juquanling. No one knows his whereabouts. Miss, you said he won't come over suddenly. , Stop the young lady from marrying to Xiqiang country?"

At this time, Dong Ning's personal waitress, Dong Xing'er, asked in a low voice from the carriage.

Ran Hu couldn’t help but **** up his ears, and he couldn’t calm down: Chen Hai suddenly handed Juquan Ridge to the co-ownership of the families, and the Hexi side was like a calm lake being thrown into a huge boulder. All annoyed for a while, but most of them were accusing Chen Hai.

Ran Hu, who returned to Hexi from Yanjing at the beginning of the year, doesn’t know what Chen Hai thinks, but Chen Hai, as a disciple of the Taiwei Sect of Hexi, is fortunate that Hexi had already set up the chess piece Shichengling in Tongbei Prefecture. He didn't say that Juquanling was completely handed over to Hexi. In the end, he only shared Juquanling with the Miao clan of the Northern Territory and the Zhao clan of the Southern Territory. In this situation, it is no wonder that most of them would accuse Chen Hai of forgetting his ancestors.

Ran Hu didn’t know why Dong Xing’er said Chen Hai would come over suddenly. He thought to himself, this **** really wanted to run over and cut his way. He wanted to grab his collar and ask why he refused and why he did it. That kind of **** thing!

"Hey..." There was a heartbreaking sigh from the carriage at this time. Ran Hu felt uncomfortable in his heart, knowing that the county lord Dong Ning did not expect Chen Hai as a **** to appear.

Instead of being humiliated in public by others, even if you don't want to hold a sharp knife to cut them out a thousand times, even if it is polite, how can you still expect the other person to appear?

At this time, I saw Ye He, the chief Wuwei who was in charge of welcoming the family and escorting the car in the West Qiang State, approached the horse. It seemed that there was something to show the lord of Yuecheng. Ran Hu coughed slightly to remind the lord Dong Ning and Dong Xingermo Chen Hai will be discussed again.

Dong Ning was rejected by Chen Hai in public, so Dong's face was naturally dull, and it would not be a good thing to let the people of the West Qiang country listen to it, and it might even make Dong Ning suffer in the West Qiang country. Should not be frivolous.

Damn Chen Hai.

All of this was caused by Chen Hai. If it weren't for Chen Hai's public refusal to marry, Dong Ning would have no face to stay in Hexi. How could he offer to marry in the ghost place of Xiqiang?

The Dong family has many children, so you can pick a daughter to marry in the West Qiang country. Why should the pearl of Taiwei Mountain be thrown into the dust in the bitter cold land of West Qiang?

Although Ran Hu was a general in Chen Hai and admired his ability to govern the military and soldiers, he was also annoyed that he was such a ruthless and unrighteous man. Since that incident, he has been with the people of Zhaoyang Pavilion Break up friendship and stop contacting each other.

"The Xixia Corridor is more than ten thousand miles long, with Wushaoling and Yujin Mountain, which are more and more high in the south, and the Gobi Desert to the north. Although the monsters in the depths of Wushaoling and Yujin Mountain are extremely fierce and fearsome In addition, but the real threat to us is the few horse thieves in the depths of the desert. Ran Hu must be prepared for the danger of this trip!" Ye He, a military veteran of the West Qiang State, is Appointed by the monarch of Xiqiang to welcome his relatives in Hexi, Huwei, who was sent to him by Ran Hu at this time, had only more than 500 elite soldiers and horses.

Ordinary horse thieves in the depths of the desert, they naturally have nothing to worry about, but the Emperor Yitian was injured in the West Expedition 20 years ago, and the soldiers and horses in Hexi were forced to abandon the barracks in the Xixia Corridor and retreat. Coming from Tie Liuling, on the north side of the 10,000-mile-long Xixia Corridor, deep in the desert, one after another horse thieves, occupying a few oasis in the depths of the desert, spring up like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Some of these horse thieves are the remnant forces that were wiped out during the Western Expedition of Emperor Yitian 20 years ago, and some are forces from the west of the Western Qiang Kingdom. They want to stretch their hands to the east and look at the Western Qiang... …

If it weren't for the sharp swordsmen of Hexi and West Qiang, these horse thieves would have to occupy the Xixia Promenade and completely cut off the connection between Hexi and West Qiang.

After hearing Ye He’s words, Ran Hu hummed slightly. If Hexi hadn’t been focusing on the east of Tieliuling in recent years, he devoted himself to managing the land of the three counties, Xixia Corridor, where is there room for these horse thieves to wreak havoc. ?

Of course, although Ran Hu is a leader among the younger generation of generals in Hexi, he has high-minded and arrogant capital, but it is also true. He knows that this trip will not be particularly peaceful, after all, not all forces want to see It is believed that the Helan Jianzong and the Huang clan standing behind the Hexiang Army are one of them.

I also knew that this trip would not be peaceful. Except for the more than 100 elites from the Western Qiang Kingdom, the other 400 horses are the elite Daoist soldiers in Hexi, even if there are three to five thousand horse thieves. Come, Ran Hu is also confident that he can tear these horse thieves to pieces.

The northwestern foothills of the Taiwei Mountain range is Mazong Mountain, and to the west of the continuous ridges of Mazong Mountain, there is the endless Golden State Desert.

Yenching does not have a detailed map of Jinzhou. There are only a few practice travel notes that contain fairly detailed records and descriptions of the Jinzhou Desert.

From Wushaoling, Yujin Mountain, Black Mountain and other extremities to the north, the vast Gobi desert stretches seven to eight thousand miles from east to west, north to south.

Only the southern edge of the desert where Wushaoling, Yujin Mountain, and Black Mountain meet, because a large amount of extinct glacier melt water flows down, forming countless lakes and oasis, and the Baiqiang tribes have multiplied and appeared. There are many vassal states connecting thousands of miles away, and the Western Qiang State is only one of them~IndoMTL.com~ and continuing to the north, except for a small amount of rain, no large rivers extend in. In the oasis deep in the long desert, whether it is In terms of scale and quantity, they have all decreased drastically. Except for the big and small horse thieves or the remaining forces that failed in the Golden State war for hegemony, there are very few real vassal states or small states.

Continue to the north, to the northern edge of the Golden State Desert, which is an area where demons are quite active, and human traces are even rarer.

Between Xichang State and Tieliuguan, because it is close to the northern foot of Wushaoling, there are hundreds of streams and rivers that pour out from the depths of Wushaoling. A series of large and small oases are formed in the long and narrow area.

This is also the main passage for Yanzhou to enter Jinzhou from Hexi to the west, and the world calls it the Xixia Corridor. Since history, whether it is the rise of Yanzhou and expansion to the west, or the joint movement of the Qiang tribes of Jinzhou, the Xixia Corridor has been a battleground for both sides.

However, as the two most important forces in the Xixia Corridor, Hexi and Xiqiang have failed to completely control the Xixia Corridor due to various reasons such as internal and external troubles. It cannot be said to be a pity.

After leaving the Hexi, Chen Hai did not walk along the Xixia Corridor, but entered west from Mazong Mountain and stepped directly into the boundless depths of the Golden State Desert.

However, he also despised the power of the vast Gobi Desert. After walking in the depths of the desert for more than ten days, he was also very sleepy and was spotted by a group of iron-ridged sand wolves with hundreds of heads.

Chen Hai was sitting behind a huge boulder that could shelter from the wind and snow, took out the meat and took two bites, and swallowed with the wine. At this time, from the vast snow and wind, several iron-backed sand wolves appeared. Staring vigilantly, not approaching, not giving Chen Hai a chance to kill them, but not leaving. It seems that after Chen Hai is exhausted, he will summon the wolves behind to surround him and eat Chen Hai with bones. Nothing left.